A History of Jazz Music (These are excerpts from my book . The latter, used both. AllAboutJazz.com covers the world of jazz music with reviews, interviews, a photo gallery, free downloads, videos and the latest jazz news. New York: Stride piano TM, . One of the most significant innovations in the early history of jazz music was. Fletcher Henderson Orchestra was the most popular African-American band of the 1920s. The smooth, carefully arranged sound of Henderson's orchestra was a huge. Mardi Gras parades and in funerals, boasted a vast repertory of styles. The. troops that were coming back from the Caribbean front landed in New Orleans. European brass instruments that were sold cheaply on the black market. New York was a cosmopolitan. New Orleans was a cosmopolitan amusement park. Thus music. was always in demand, not just as paid entertainment but as the soundtrack. The origin of the word jazz is one of the most sought-after word origins in modern American English. The word's intrinsic interest – the American Dialect Society. What was the Harlem Renaissance? The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African American culture embracing literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts. The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular, mainly in the United States, but also. David Stone Martin and his jazz album cover design. Notes and pictures from Birka Jazz Archive. In other cities ethnicity was a problem. In New Orleans. ethnicity was an opportunity to improve the party, because each ethnic group. For example, Charles . His style was the epitome of . From. 1. 91. 3 till 1. Original Creole Band was the first black orchestra to. New Orleans. Blacks were not the only. Jazz groups were formed by Italians, Creoles and all. European immigrants. The soul of the city's black. Joe Jordan, and the main mentors were the clubs of. They featured several young talents who had. South, such as Joe . For example, Benton Overstreet's Jazz Dance (1. Estelle Harris' most popular skits. Unlike the stormy collective. Original Dixieland Jass Band, these pieces also contained solos. New Orleans trombonist Tom Brown was the leader of. Chicago in 1. 91. He adopted the term. Thus it found the right balance between. It was the first new genre of music that spread. Previously a new form of music or dance had required. Dixieland jazz spread thanks to the virtual movement. During the war. the price of records had been significantly reduced, making records affordable. In 1. 91. 9 a law was. Victor and Columbia, and. It was a novelty architected for an unsophisticated audience that. A white bandleader of San Francisco, Art Hickman, was. Ory stayed in Los Angeles. Chicago, where he contributed to Louis Armstrong's success (e. Muskrat Ramble. recorded by Armstrong in february 1. Although initially considered only a new kind of ragtime, jazz became rapidly a sensation both in the USA and abroad. The ragtime pianists. Improvisation introduced a different concept of. The musician of written music is, mainly, the composer, whereas. Because of. improvisation, blues and jazz music were emphasizing the persona of the player. Needless to say, the latter allowed the player. The jazz musician was basically. The kind of dynamics and of. The call- and- response structure was replicated. But the exodus of black musicians was also part of. But also because of more tolerant attitudes: the industrialists of. North were literally luring blacks to their factories while plantation. The first. revolution was caused by the networks of vaudeville theaters that were formed. Pericles . Many of them converted to jazz music after 1. His. recordings were just that: jazz music meant to be recorded. It was conceived. Thus the careful architecture. Thus the limit on improvisation: Morton wanted to. Thus the studio- driven nature of his band, that. The first one was Walter Melrose, one of the. The second one was Morton's troubles with the mobsters who ran. Chicago: Morton's band was only a studio band because he. His trumpet was literally the instrumental counterpart of blues singing. It was Armstrong who shifted the emphasis towards the vocabulary of the extended virtuoso solo. His style at both instruments. He wrote Royal Garden Blues (1. Original Dixieland Jazz Band (recorded in may 1. Chicago (1. 92. 0) and to New York (1. Bessie Smith's career with Gulf Coast Blues (february 1. They also contain some of his most intense compositions. Only black communities were. The big. difference between jazz and blues (or the spiritual or the work song) was. They wanted to be like white people. They de facto repudiated. The lyrics of blues songs were emotional and. Jazz music had no lyrics or. Jazz lyrics were. In fact, jazz would become a mostly instrumental. Blues music, on the other hand, was very much about the lyrics. Blues music was born as music to mourn to. After all, few blacks desired to move back to Africa. But the assimilation. Copernican revolution. In its early phase, jazz was recognized by both. Jazz initially had. For a long time, many people called it . Ragtime was written composition, distributed as sheets. Most of the instruments were as . Jazz was, indirectly, also another stage in the. European musical. West- African syncopated rhythms. Jazz music is supposed to be the way it is played, not the way. There is little in jazz music to support this viewpoint. Given a chance, many jazz musicians chose to compose, not only to. Improvisation on other people's material was, in fact, more. The more sophisticated the music is. Thus one simple explanation for. It also happens to be a process that paralleled the process of. Both jazz music and the. If one views jazz improvisation as simply a new form. The dichotomy between jazz music and Euro- centric music. Jazz musicians began to compose their own material because. Even in its most extreme . The sound of a band is rarely due only to the ideas of. More than one member is usually responsible for the. That remained the real difference between jazz and classical.
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